Mourant

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Abel's practice covers all areas of commercial and financial disputes, with a focus on financial institutions, investment funds and trusts. He specialises in insolvency matters, and has extensive experience acting for creditors, directors, shareholders and insolvency practitioners on all aspects of contentious insolvency and asset recovery.

Abel also advises on regulatory issues, and has acted for financial institutions in a number of significant regulatory investigations and proceedings.

Abel studied law at the University of Queensland and was admitted to practice as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland (currently non-practising) in 2002. He has also qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales (currently non-practising).

Abel obtained his Certificat d'Etudes Juridiques Françaises et Normandes from the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie in France in December 2010 and was called to the Guernsey Bar in February 2011.

Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP) The Insolvency Lawyers' Association Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) Director and Executive Committee member of ARIES (the Channel Islands member association of INSOL International)

Advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey, February 2011 Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland, 2002 (currently non-practising)